Notes on Mildred Judson Sadler
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(from Ruth Snead papers)
Newspaper clipping
Mrs. M. J. Kent Passes to her reward July 19th after a year of intense suffering.
Mrs. M. J. Kent, one of Beckley’s most beloved and highly respected citizens, died at her home on North Kanawha Street, at noon on Friday, July the 19th, 1918, after a year of great suffering from cancer of the liver.
Mrs. Kent was a noble Christian character, devoted to her family, her church and her friends; and always concerned first for the pleasure and happiness of others; and in her passing, Beckley has suffered the loss of one of her most valuable citizens.
She became a Christian about the age of 14 years, and united with Antioch Baptist Church, of Fluvanna Co, VA.
Mrs. Kent and her husband were charter members of the Beckley Baptist church in the days of its pioneer history.
The funeral was held from First Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 and was attended by a large assemblage of sorrowing relatives and friends.
She was interred in Wildwood Cemetery.
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Mildred Judson Kent, outlived her husband by 15 years—age 63 when she died. When her husband died, her youngest daughter, Emma Blanch was 14 – four years later, Blanch married and with her husband, Tilden S. Williams, lived at home with her mother. Blanch died in about five years. The last years of her life were most unhappy, her son, Walter Kent and wife, moved into her home, and I think her daughter-in-law, was not very kind to her. As one time, when she was bedfast, her condition became so bad that the neighbors came in an moved her to her daughter, Florence Mahood’s home for a while.
Judson is a Sadler family name.
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